導讀問題

This chapter tells us Su Tungpo's life, from his birth to death. The author thinks highly of him for Su Tungpo's principles and opinions, as well as the charm of his poems and prose. Su Tungpo certainly takes up a peculiar position in China's history.

Words and expressions

1. In such ardent zeal for social reform Wang Anshih inevitably regarded any means as justifiable by the end, including purging of all dissenting opinion.

ardent: impassioned. It can be used to describe someone that has extremely strong feelings about something or someone.

仿寫: He's been one of the most ardent supporters in the political reform.

2.What could not be taken away from him was his sturdy integrity, and what no man could confer upon him was his popular fame.?

sturdy: be used to describe someone who is determined and is unlikely? to be easily changed.

仿寫: She was a short, sturdy woman in her early sixties.

3. The technical restrictions in Chinese poetry were many, requiring a high skill in the use of allusions and in the writing of a poem with the same rhyme words as those used in a poem written by a friend.

allusion: something written that mentions a subject, person indirectly

仿寫: In his poetry we find many allusions to the human body.

There is a current Chinese saying that final judgment upon a man is possible only when the cover is nailed on his coffin. 蓋棺定論

感悟

第一章節(jié)概述了蘇東坡的一生，生于宋仁宗景祐三年（1036），死于徽宗建中靖國元年（1101）。蘇東坡的一生經(jīng)歷了數(shù)位北宋皇帝，本章從其出生，政治生涯的坎坷與不順，和王安石政見的爭議，到元裕黨人碑的建立，后遭雷擊，死后追封謚號進行了一系列的概述

Su Tungpo, therefore, ranks as a major poet and prose writer of China. In addition he was a painter and calligraphist of the first order, a distinguished conversationalist, a great traveler.

林語堂先生對蘇東坡給予了極好的贊揚和高度評價，占有卓絕的歷史地位，其詩作文藝等各方面取得巨大的成就。